This documentary is fascinating to watch. I’ve pasted the trailer here; the movie itself is also available on YouTube. I cried a few times, I was so happy to see the difference this was making for people.

In my historical archaeology class we visited this really cool map archive library that I didn’t know we had. Some insurance company I guess threw out a bunch of their books and my school got ahold of them. They’re cool (but ultimately useless for any of my projects).

I don’t post a lot of my own archaeology stuff but here’s some of the things I’ve been doing in my curation and collections class: rebagging! This stuff hasn’t been touched since the 70s and one of the other grad students is using it for their thesis so we’re helping him out by sorting through the materials and rebagging it cuz they come in all kinds of containers such as (but not limited to) old film canisters (pictured above), medicine bottles, weird plastic vials, and sandwich baggies (non ziploc kind/fold over sandwich bags).

Turing test (1950) is completely predicated on the idea that it is possible, for a human being, to distinguish between the man and the woman based on the content of their answers without seeing or hearing them. Then in Turing’s thought experiment, the computer replaces the man, and the man replaces the woman, and the interrogator is continuing asking them questions.

Some machines as of now already pass or would pass Turing rest, but then some humans no doubt wouldn’t.

If Turing test was permanent and required humanlike presence at every second to produce humanlike reaction, we would all fail it.

Viking Boot - You can even see the toggle fastening. This particular boot is more than 1000 years old and was found in Coney Street, York. It’s rare for organic materials like leather to last for so long. [700x397]

One thing a lot of the public don’t take into account when considering cultural myths is children. Like most cultures have some kind of monster that punishes naughty children who wander too far. Or they have stories that teach children important moral foundations of that society. We don’t actually believe fairytales and santa claus are real, but we want to believe that other cultures are ‘mystical’ or more religious than us, so we assume they believe every myth is literal.

Old Anthropology notes ft. having a mental break down because I sent a wrong document to a teacher, fortunately I spoke with them and because I sent it early, I could submit it a second time ft. Asmr has been helping me study so much.